Jamaica Kincaid on writing, her life, and The New Yorker
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9 жыл бұрынBorn in Antigua, Jamaica Kincaid arrived in the United States as a seventeen-year-old au pair. Working her way through college, she eventually became a staff writer at the New Yorker and one of our most renowned novelists. Her Caribbean birthplace continues to inspire her fiction, from "Annie John" and "Lucy" to "Mr. Potter" and "See Now Then." Join her for a wide-ranging conversation with CHF Emeritus Artistic Director Lawrence Weschler.
This program is generously underwritten by Lynn Hauser and Neil Ross.
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@lorenzowarfel1587 11 ай бұрын
What an INCREDIBLE and ELOQUENT writer! She's such a beautiful human being and her voice is so soothing! I want to take a class of her's at Harvard!
@BubbyNikko 4 жыл бұрын
I've started reading her books last summer and fell in love with each of them. Her writing is so vivid, so powerful and in my case, as a person who hasn't read much of post-colonial literature, a real punch in the stomach sometimes but a necessary one, to open my eyes to a new culture.
@londongirl6969 4 жыл бұрын
I love her writing so much!
@Never_give_up484 3 жыл бұрын
I learnt her book at Metropolitan State University in here MN I really love her writing book 📖 I admire what she wrote on the book like “this is how to do this”
@sibengerard1856 5 жыл бұрын
ONE OF THE MOST GIFTED WRITERS, LIVING TODAY IN AMERICA.
@41yearoldnewdriver 3 жыл бұрын
I just love Jamaica Kincaid. Her prose is beautiful. She is one of my she-roes. I have read three of her novels. The Caribbean novelist she is.
@mymykisses5980 8 жыл бұрын
The book was amazing
@LuahFontana 8 жыл бұрын
Who would unlike this?! Roseanne Barr? What the hell...Jamaica is such a nice woman...
@brookegarrett7742 7 жыл бұрын
It was probably Barbara Walters.
@Freiya2011 5 жыл бұрын
Amazing woman! Witty, clever, with a very subtle respectless humor! "Being a slut might be a very agreeable way of life - You can't have too much slutness" :D
@mardelizrivera4636 5 жыл бұрын
“Webster’s Dictionary defines ‘boring’ as a sentence that begins: ‘Webster’s Dictionary defines...’” 😂
@manuag3886 3 жыл бұрын
note to self: 22:00
@amandaallen5915 3 жыл бұрын
Why does she change her name?
@starbuck26 6 жыл бұрын
how dare that man lean back in his chair
@Freiya2011 5 жыл бұрын
He is VERY selfconfident....
@jayshrik 3 жыл бұрын
I think he makes the atmosphere v relaxed .
@amandaallen5915 3 жыл бұрын
I don’t know that a person who says the point. Of education is to, “not be” should be teaching.
@osleuszy428 3 жыл бұрын
But that so very true
@nicosentnicos8402 3 жыл бұрын
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